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cards:svengali_deck [2024/03/17 22:13] – Clarified early history. stephenminch | cards:svengali_deck [2024/03/19 17:53] (current) – Added further details on the Hull and LeRoy decks. stephenminch | ||
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Card cheats used the short-long---or more precisely, narrow-wide---principle in conjunction with a stacked deck, according to the anonymous author (believed to be Ange Goudar) of // | Card cheats used the short-long---or more precisely, narrow-wide---principle in conjunction with a stacked deck, according to the anonymous author (believed to be Ange Goudar) of // | ||
- | In 1907, Ellsworth Lyman contributed a gimmicked improvement for displaying the deck first as all red, then as all black: The deck used shortened corners rather than short cards to make the faces turn all red, then all black; see "A Color Changing Trick" in // | + | In 1907, Ellsworth Lyman contributed a gimmicked improvement for displaying the deck first as all red, then as all black: The deck used shortened corners rather than jogged |
- | The next significant step in the evolution of these gaffed decks---its main purpose | + | The next significant step in the evolution of these ideas produced the Svengali Deck, which appeared sixteen months after Lyman' |
- | John Booth, in // | + | John Booth, in // |
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+ | The first advertisements for the Hull and LeRoy decks appeared just two months apart: Hull's ran in the March 1909 issue of // | ||
According to Judge Wethered in // | According to Judge Wethered in // |